Battle of Antietam 1887 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Empire wore a velvet coat

Empire wore a velvet coat that season

Geographical Historical and Statistical Chart of the United States of America 1835 — a Jacksonian-era reference engraving that flatters the young republic with columns of population figures

Senator from Kentucky

the granite shoulders of El Capitan rendered by postcard artists who understood that the valley humbles the hand that draws it

Patrick's twin towers in the brooding chiaroscuro of a Gilded Age plate — pinnacles and flying buttresses sharpened against a leaden sky

Battle of Antietam 1887 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Empire wore a velvet coatBattle of Antietam 1887 a commemorative lithograph rendered a quarter century after the bloodiest single day on American soil, when memory had cooled enough to permit the cornfield and Burnside's Bridge to be redrawn as scripture rather than slaughter. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers